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Drone zithers or droned zithers are stringed instruments of the zither family that have few (sometimes only one) melodic strings and a greater number of drone strings. The oldest known form of drone zither is the Scheitholt. The Scheitholt developed into many different variants of drone zithers, such as the Langspil, the Epinette des Vosges or ...
Diatonic, lute-like string instrument langeleik [13] Norway: 314.122 Rectangular zither with five to nine strings, one melody string and several drone strings santur [16] Iran: 314.122-4 Hammered dulcimer, trapezoidal-shaped with 72 strings and two sets of bridges, hit with mallets yangqin [17] yang ch'in, yang qin: China: 314.122-4
In Europe and other more northern and western regions, early zithers were more similar to the modern mountain dulcimer, having long, usually rectangular, sound boxes, with one or more melody strings and several unfretted drone strings. Some of these employed movable bridges similar to the Japanese koto, used for retuning the drone strings.
It has a single melody string and usually 2 drone strings. The langspil can be played by plucking the strings by hand, with a bow or by hammering. Langspils exist in two basic versions, straight and curved and are generally around the length of 80 cm (31 in), and can be as long as 104 cm (41 in) or as short as 73 cm (29 in).
Note: Because the dulcimer is most often played on the lap or with the instrument lying on a table, when the instrument is held upright (headstock at the top), the highest pitched string will be on the left—this is the reverse of most other string instruments (e.g., guitar, bass, fiddle, etc.) where the lowest string is on the left.
A plucked seven-string zither with open strings and a range of about four octaves: 312.22: China: guzheng [34] zheng, gu-zheng: Half-tube zither, rectangular with three sound holes on the bottom, now with twenty-one strings most typically, pentatonic tuning, strings are plucked by hand 312.22-5: China: pipa [35] Pear-shaped bowl lute with a ...
The 12 string overtone zither, the first prototype of Aaron Hemphill's Moodswinger. The blonde 3 string stereo-guitar, 1 bass string tuned B, and 2 thin B tuned guitar strings. The green 7 string trio-guitar, 1 bass string, DAD tuned guitar string and 3 G ♯-strings. The Electric Spring; The electric cymbalom, 72 strings, 12 pickups, one for ...
The metal strings are plucked or strummed with picks while depressing the keys to change the notes. Some of the strings, which provide melody, are acted on by the keys, while the drone and sympathetic strings are not fretted. The instrument has two main strings, three sympathetic resonating strings and a 10-string electric drone harp.